Wednesday, January 23, 2008

January 23 (A Day) and January 24 (B Day): Genetics

OBJECTIVE: Students will perform a lab in order to determine how traits are inherited.

WARM-UP: Construct a Punnett square for the following cross: Tt x Tt. Identify the genotype and phenotype if T=tall and t=short.

VOCABULARY:
1) independent assortment
2) incomplete dominance
3) codominance
4) multiple alleles
5) polygenic traits

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review 11-1, 11-2 and 11-3
3) Review Sponge Bob Activity
4) Investigating Inherited Trait Lab p. 66

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Read and outline 11-1 in textbook

HOMEWORK DUE:
Sponge Bob Lab

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None